'How I Met Your Mother' backup plan: The mother might have been Victoria

By Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published March 27, 2014 3:05 pm

TV • "How I Met Your Mother" producers had a contingency plan in Season 1.

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For all the talk about how Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, creators and executive producers of "How I Met Your Mother," had the end of the series mapped out since the beginning, they did have a contingency plan in Season 1. If the show had been canceled after 13 episodes, they had a way out.

"It would have been Victoria, probably," Thomas said.

Victoria (Ashley Williams) was Ted's (Josh Radnor) first serious girlfriend on "How I Met Your Mother." She moved to Germany and the long-distance relationship failed.

"I don't know if we ever consciously said this out loud," Bays said. "I would imagine we both kind of agreed."

They never told anyone else what they were thinking, either.

"Ashley Williams is reading this, like, '[Expletive]! That would have been awesome!' " Thomas said.

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